GERMAN GUN RUNNER
SHIPMENT OF REBELS FOR
VENEZUELA
LONDON, December 23
A story rivalling any of Joseph Conrad’s or John Masefield’s sen tales is expected when the exploits of the German gun-runner Falke, 998 tons, are investigated in the law courts. The -Falke was detained at Port of Spain, Trinidad, after she had taken a load of rebels to Venezuela in August last, following a complaint by the crew that the captain hacked up his orders with a revolver. The Falke was declared a pirate vessel by the Venezuelan authorities.
Three Hamburg merchants, Felix Prenzlnn, Felix Kramarasky and Captain Zipplit, will be charged with forcibly kidnapping human beings, namely, the Fa Ike crew, a crime which involves 15 years’ penal servitude. The accused, it is alleged, chartered the Falke for gun-running to Venezuela The enterprise was frustrated by a battle between Government troops and the rebels landed from the Falke in which the rebel leader, General Delgado Charlbaud ,was killed, his son fleeing with the remnant of the defeated party to Grenada Island.
The Falke is still detained at Port of Spain, but the crew, who did not receive the promised lavish wages, have been repatriated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 5
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